Let the Wiki Win

Woop woop woop!

My hard work finally pays off :D

Woohoo!

For anyone who'd like to help but doesn't know where to start: Hop to the JoCopedia thread in the forums! http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=540

It's an honor just to be mentioned.

Gee, I sound like a nominee for Best Supporting Actor. But then again, I'm no Brad Garrett.

The Wiki's already paid off for +1 fan, Jon ... a friend of mine who had only seen Spiff's Code Monkey was interested in the rest of them, so I mailed her the link to Spiff's page. :)

It has nothing to do with the post, but I just wanted to say that you are AWESOME!! Your songs are so uniques and entertaining, and you are a great singer/player, other than a crazy song writer! I will never download for free a song of yours, you deserve recognition (and dough) for your limitless talent.

Jonathan Coulton ---> Redefining nerd awesomeness, since 2005.

Also nothing to do with the post, but Happy Earthday... which also happens to be my birthday and I'm glad to spend a little of both supportin' your "nerd awesomeness". (while I'm not blowin out candles or recycling)

Grats on the wiki

I just want to thank you from the bottom of my Star Wars obsessed heart for "Let The Wiki Win."

Although my favorite SW reference was the time you dropped a reference to making the kessel run in 12 parsecs into one of your PopSi Podcasts.

That was cool.

WOW!
You have made it to the bigtime.. your own Wiki entry!
SWEET!!
Your a part of MY family and it's 'good times'
44yr
22yr
13yr
3 decades! YOU ROCK JoCo!
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Hey, don't get us wrong -- JoCo's had a Wikipedia entry for a while now!

http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Jonathan_Coulton

No, this is more than that. This is a comprehensive encyclopedia of all things JoCo -- an entire Wikipedia (like a delicate bud or a tiny fractal nestled within a large fractal) dedicated to JoCo -- a (if you will) JoCopedia, which is conveniently enough what it's actually called.

Thanks to everyone who's already signed on in the last few hours. We really appreciate it! And if anyone has experience with wiki maintenance, particularly with automation / bot-writing, we'd love to hear from you.

AgentLex, Bry and MitchO have done a great job setting this up and getting things organised for the masses to start adding, by preparing the ground work (deciding how the pages should be laid out for example).

A huge thanks to them and everyone else that helpped.

Eee! Just added the release dates for Portal. I feel useful!

Theres a forum?

Grats on the wiki-i'll attempt to post on my limited knowledge

I like how you are using the MediaWiki software, but keep in mind it can be like uber-customized, as per http://tmbw.net/wiki/Main_Page which is They Might Be Giants' "There Might be a Wiki."

Perhaps we can borrow some ideas from them?

I stand corrected, TMBG's wiki is in fact called "This Might Be a Wiki" now "There Might be a Wiki."

not*

must fight overwhelming urge to add my birthday party to Shows calendar

Roman: we have taken our cue from TMBW on a few things, but of course we want JoCopedia to be its own thing. As far as I'm concerned, getting a wiki with proper layouts and enough information comes before a pretty skin and mods galore.

That said, there are a few mods in place. The shows calendar uses a (very slightly) customised version of a calendar extension, plus we've got a couple of others running in the background.

If you have any other extensions to suggest, come and join us in the forum thread Bry linked earlier!

I added 2 things to today's "day in history" but I couldn't figure out how to do this:

Hey, Marcy! Yeah, the "This Day in JoCo" isn't working quite as smoothly as we want it yet, unfortunately. We'll keep working on it. (By the way, what are the Shakespeare / Wordsworth connections to JoCo? I love all three, but I hadn't even thought of connecting them.)

Roman V.: Head to the JoCopedia thread in the forums and count the time TMBW is mentioned. You may need to borrow other people's fingers... ;)

Martyn, and everyone else who didn't know about the forums: Water's not warm, baby.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/

cold. Water's not cold.

(Reason #1 to go to the forums: In the forums, you can edit your posts.)

I was wondering when the wiki showed up. Looks like not paying attention to the forums does mean something.

Alas, I have a lot of busy time in the next week or two, meaning a lot of time to devote to the wiki. *registers* Mmm, captchas. 'Favorably canonized' is apt for you, I think.

@Lex: Yeah, I think it's just a mods/skins thing, looking back, because the current layout just looks like Wikipedia.... not that there's anything wrong with that...

@Bry: Ah yes, apparently many of us JoCoholics (I've just made that word up, but it sounded good.... use it!) think alike... and like They Might Be Giants.....

Just wanted to post here what I said already in the forum thread: In just 24 hours of JoCo mentioning the Wiki, we've already gotten several great new editors with good info and knowledge. Keep it coming people! Thanks!

@Roman: Reason #2 to frequent the forums: You get to be around when all the cool slang is coined
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=4&page=1#Item_46
or at least when I get chastised for using it to mean something other than "Jocohol addict"
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=404&page=1#Item_2

;)

Seriously -- join the forums. You might not regret it.

Mitch: Absolutely! I'm so glad to see so many people eager to help -- whether or not they have wiki experience, there's always something they can help out with.

Nice work! I have to say it was kind of cool to see my name listed under fans and an entry written about me. I was all blushy and everything when I saw that. :)

Who wrote the login page?